Since Ivory edition is being released after the start of the Kotei season, but the cards are legal with proxies, I was just wondering If I could still use the older version of the cards (specifically wondering about the souls named as Soul of) or will I have to print out the current versions and use printed out cards in my deck. The way I see the rules I can use the older cards, but just making sure that with the proxy rules handed out for the march koteis I am not forced to use the print outs instead of the older cards.
Older Cards at Kotei
A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
Since Ivory edition is being released after the start of the Kotei season, but the cards are legal with proxies, I was just wondering If I could still use the older version of the cards (specifically wondering about the souls named as Soul of) or will I have to print out the current versions and use printed out cards in my deck. The way I see the rules I can use the older cards, but just making sure that with the proxy rules handed out for the march koteis I am not forced to use the print outs instead of the older cards.
While this forum isn't technically for Floor Rules, I think I can safely say that you can use older printings of cards as long as you're aware of and play by the MRP's text. And that includes using the named "Soul of" as a proxy for the card on which it's named.
I mean, first of all, an older printing of say, School of Wizardry, isn't a proxy at all. It's the same card, just with slightly outdated text. And as for "Soul of"s, you can normally and always proxy such cards with their "Soul of"s during tournaments that don't otherwise allow any manner of proxy. So, there's no reason to think that a printed bit of paper is preferred over an actual card which is itself usually considered equivalent to the card that the paper is a picture of.